My brother and mother got no value from their religion when they died.

during the eight-week blitz attack 25,000 soldiers died from the disease and the death rate ( formerly 5 per year per 1,000 men ) increased almost fifty times to 4 per week per 1,000 men.

The red glow from the cove had died out of the sky.

He did this by the charming practice of buying up used electric blankets for $5 to $10 from survivors of patients who had died, reconditioning them, and selling them at $185 each.

Cattle which died from them winter storms were referred to as the `` winter kill ''.

`` He's just heard from the pathologist who says Mrs. Meeker apparently died from suffocation ''.

During this sequence, it is revealed that Mrs. Alexander died from the injuries inflicted during the gang-rape, and her husband has decided to continue living " where her fragrant memory persists " despite the horrid memories.

Suffering from angina, Nobel died at home, of a cerebral haemorrhage in 1896.

Alp Arslan died four days later from this wound on 25 November 1072 in his 42nd year, and was taken to Merv to be buried next to his father Chaghri Beg.

On January 26, 2000, van Vogt died in Los Angeles, USA from Alzheimer's disease, and was survived by his second wife, the former Lydia Bereginsky.

This eventually caused a retroperitoneal abscess and paralytic ileus from which he died following operation.

* Thomas Patten from Dooega died fighting Francisco Franco's fascist forces during the Siege of Madrid in December 1936.

According to the Gospel of Matthew, at the death of Jesus tombs were opened, and at his resurrection many saints who had died emerged from their tombs and went into " the holy city ", presumably New Jerusalem.

Turing died in 1954, just over two weeks before his 42nd birthday, from cyanide poisoning.

A third use of the term pertains specifically to the indigenous peoples of the Americas, for instance, " In the 16th century, many Americans died from imported diseases during the European conquest ".

Antoninus Pius (; born 19 September 86AD – died 7 March 161AD ), also known as Antoninus, was Roman Emperor from 138AD to 161AD.

After the longest reign since Augustus ( surpassing Tiberius by a couple of months ), Antoninus died of fever at Lorium in Etruria, about twelve miles ( 19 km ) from Rome, on 7 March 161, giving the keynote to his life in the last word that he uttered when the tribune of the night-watch came to ask the password —" aequanimitas " ( equanimity ).

He may have died from natural causes, though there were unconfirmed rumors that his wife Livia poisoned him.

Up until the 1950s, Abensberg and the surrounding villages contained a number of graves of victims of a Death March in the Spring of 1945 from the Hersbruck sub-camp of the Dachau concentration camp, who were either murdered by the SS or died of exhaustion.

Henry David Thoreau died on May 6, 1862, likely from an illness he caught from Alcott two years earlier.

Israelites of course abstained from pork, but Ahab was married to a Phoenician / Tyrian princess Jezebel, who was one of the most " powerful and notorious women of monarchic times " yet who died of a similarly seemingly random death like her husband, and his capital of Samaria was said to follow Canaanite gods.

* Adrian of May ( died 875 ), Scottish saint from the Isle of May, martyred by Vikings

Scott's only son Walter did not live to enjoy the property, having died on his way from India in 1847.

Inevitably, Mrs. Hull died of starvation and tuberculosis, weighing 60 pounds.

Edward died on February 1, 1850, in Springfield, likely of tuberculosis.

She had intended Newton to become a clergyman, but she died of tuberculosis when he was six years old.

Anne's life was cut short when she died of pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 29.

In the summer of 1930 in Lübeck, 240 infants were vaccinated in the first 10 days of life ; almost all developed tuberculosis and 72 infants died.

The couple adopted Katherine Lester in the early 1920s ; her father had been killed in World War I and her mother had died of tuberculosis.

Coolidge's chronically ill mother died, perhaps from tuberculosis, when he was twelve years old.

In the spring of the following year, Ward's health gave way and he died of tuberculosis at Southampton on March 6, 1867.

The school's poor conditions, Charlotte maintained, permanently affected her health and physical development and hastened the deaths of her two elder sisters, Maria ( born 1814 ) and Elizabeth ( born 1815 ), who died of tuberculosis in June 1825.

In September 1848 Charlotte's brother, Branwell, died of chronic bronchitis and marasmus exacerbated by heavy drinking, although Charlotte believed his death was due to tuberculosis.

Emily became seriously ill shortly after Branwell's funeral, and died of pulmonary tuberculosis in December 1848.

Her death certificate gives the cause of death as phthisis ( tuberculosis ), but many biographers suggest she may have died from dehydration and malnourishment, caused by excessive vomiting from severe morning sickness or hyperemesis gravidarum.

On 5 September 1879, Camille Monet died of tuberculosis at the age of thirty-two ; Monet painted her on her death bed.

Jenner married Catherine Kingscote ( died 1815 from tuberculosis ) in March 1788 after meeting her while he and other Fellows were experimenting with balloons.

He was survived by one son and one daughter, his elder son having died of tuberculosis at the age of 21.

His wife died of tuberculosis two years after its publication.

On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore ; the cause of his death is unknown and has been variously attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents.

His father abandoned their family in 1810, and his mother died a year later from consumption ( pulmonary tuberculosis ).

Edvard's mother died of tuberculosis in 1868, as did Munch's favorite sister Johanne Sophie in 1877.

Maria, who may actually have had tuberculosis, was sent home, where she died.

She eventually died of tuberculosis, on 19 December 1848 at around two in the afternoon.

In 1762 Algarotti moved to Pisa, where he died of tuberculosis.

His wife died of tuberculosis on November 29, 1921, at the age of 26.

His wife gave birth to a daughter, who died after a few weeks, and in 1806 Fanny died of consumption ( tuberculosis ).